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21 hours ago, Ambergris said:

The nurses who saw me in early April and again some time later gave me prescription cough syrup, an in haler, and in the later visit a session with -- I forget what you call it, but I breathed the medication for X number of minutes--and another inhaler. 

Nebulizer.  I've used one a few times with very low dose iodine or colloidal silver in it.

Merry Christmas, y'all!

9 hours ago, Littlesister said:

Oh yes, should I or should I not spike the egg nog. 

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!  

I'm confused about the question, unless you know someone else already spiked it.

10 hours ago, Ambergris said:

 

That's why the per 100k needs to be posted, don't you think?  

Yes, and I greatly appreciate you posting it.

Some people down here are randomly freaking out because the overall numbers for Texas are so high.  Well, duh.  We have a ton of people.  If you look at the numbers per 100,000 people, however, we seem to be middle to low.

On 12/20/2020 at 8:52 PM, Ambergris said:

And it includes ten billion dollars for broadband.  Say what?

Honestly, that's my favorite part.  Maybe they'll have the funding to bring it over to our house.  Trying to do online schooling on cellular internet SUCKS.  Massively.  And it's a VAST improvement over satellite.

Uh, guys?

https://nypost.com/2020/12/14/bird-flu-spreads-to-10th-japanese-prefecture/

What they're saying is that if you don't ever access Google Drive or Google Photos, they're not going to store your stuff indefinitely.  If you read the notice, the earliest they will delete anything is June 1, 2023.  You've got some time.

1 hour ago, euphrasyne said:

Its free storage for the most part.  Get an external hard drive and update it every so often.  I use the google storage to transfer things between devices, but you get what you pay for and free storage is free storage; it is almost always better to back up your own stuff.    

 

Amazon has 3TB storage for under $27

Amazon.com: Portable External Hard Drive USB3.0 SATA HDD Storage (160G, Gray): Computers & Accessories

That's 160 GB, not 3TB.  The USB 3.0 is referring to the type of connection.  That being said...here's 4TB for $100, at least right now: https://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Portable-External-Silver/dp/B08DDC36S1/

They opened up our schools this semester, and have done things like canceled Sunday evening for Monday morning due to COVID cases.  So glad we had already arranged for the kids to be going through a virtual school this year.

6 minutes ago, Daylily said:

That's cool! I got a mini class free from them in a Ultimate Bundle Productivity deal and liked it. I drooled over the PowerSheets and wondered if I would actually use them. What do you like about them? Anything you dislike?

They're great as long as I make sure I sit down and take the time to go through them.    I did their big long 6-hour planning session yesterday (it was a separate purchase, but definitely raised some good points I hadn't thought of).

9 minutes ago, Daylily said:

Would you mind sharing the name of your system? I love goal setting and haven't had much time for it this month, and I have several that I listen to, read or watch. One must have to have time and quiet to be able to think a complete thought in order to set goals. Or at least I do! Fitness and decluttering are two of my priorities every year.

I'm using PowerSheets from Cultivate What Matters.  Here's the first planning video from last year if you'd like to see kind of how they're put together (this year, they're putting it as a course for people who've bought them): https://cultivatewhatmatters.com/blogs/cwm/how-to-set-goals-with-your-powersheets-1?_pos=6&_sid=4b0b67e53&_ss=r

I had a glorious afternoon and most of the evening to myself yesterday.  I went through a 6-hour video for the system I use for goal setting (well, one of them...).  I'm just setting goals that don't require life as normal for now.  Even if we do get locked down (which is rather unlikely in our area), I can still work on my basic level of fitness, figuring out what I want to be when I grow up, decluttering, and straightening out our finances (although that will be MUCH easier if we don't get locked down...).

Drank tea.  Dreamt.  Plotted.  Planned.  All in all, a fabulous day.

I literally keep a box of masks in my car because otherwise, I'll wear it into work or something and leave without it, or drop it on the ground, or...

I have some cute Christmas ones I need to break out for the next 2 weeks.

I'm figuring out that I have a distinct lack of motivation when it comes to planning for next year.  I mean, it almost feels like why try to plan anything when it could all change on a dime?  And that's why I need to plan, so that I'm ready for it if it does happen, but it just feels so...intimidating, tryin to plan for that level of unknown.

I'm getting one of the big honkin' 6-quart lift-bowl Pro Kitchenaid mixers for Christmas.  Mom sent me a picture from Costco to make sure that was what I wanted.  It's not a fun color, but I'll survive with gray.

Mt_Rider, have you ever read The Spoon Theory?  https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/

There's also The Fork Corollary, which is what I think is kicking people's behinds this year: http://jenrose.com/fork-theory/

Currently watching this video from Ivor Cummins:

Just a quick note, most of these are also Kindle Unlimited books.  Amazon generally does a 30-day free trial of Kindle Unlimited if you haven't subscribed before, so add them to a list and when you have enough to keep you busy for a month, do the free trial, and read and highlight like crazy.  Pull your highlighted notes once you're done, and you'll have the info you wanted from the books for no charge, as long as you cancel before the end of the trial.

1. Still trying to stay off most of my online "fun" so I can get things done.  Working on some goal-planning stuff for 2021.
2. I always call the seat warmers in the car "toasty buns".  Probably from a Saved by the Bell episode where Lisa is working at a diner and tells someone that if they want toasted buns, they should go sit on a toaster.
3. I have a 5 pound bag of very tasty coffee that I bought on Black Friday.  Haven't opened yet. Can I just vacuum seal in smaller packages and keep in the freezer?
4. I followed directions when I made my coffee this morning.  I use either a drip filter or an Aeropress.  I looked up the "flip" method for the Aeropress, and my coffee was even smoother and tastier than usual.
5. Hubby made me get a bigger ice cream maker, as apparently we'll never be able to build up a stash in the freezer if I only make it with the 1.5 quart one.  Apparently...keto ice cream is a hit.

Just so you don't worry about me: I'm going to disappear for a bit.  Trying to limit computer time outside of work and an online course or 2.  If I wander off for too long, feel free to send me a message. 

On 11/29/2020 at 7:14 AM, Daylily said:

One of my grandmas had a bit of dementia and my parents eventually put her in a nursing home. She was happy there. She told everybody that visited her that Daddy owned it and she was in charge of the kitchen. All the staff went right along with her.  But Daddy made me promise to put him in a nursing home if he became unable to take care of himself. It didn't come to that because he died at 75 from sepsis after surgery for blocked bowel.

 

Hope your mom will be ok too!

Luckily, Mom's not showing signs of dementia.

Grandma...would tell you that she never did anything or went anywhere and spent all her time alone in her room.  Got kicked out of 2 different nursing homes because they couldn't handle her.  After she died, the nursing home staff at the one she'd been at for while started laughing when we told them that (the aunt and uncle who were local had checked into it while she was still alive) and pulled out the photo album showing that she was at everything all the time.  She was always a live wire.

The Grill Bible is now showing it's a $.99 book.  I got all the others, though!

13 hours ago, Daylily said:

That's too bad. Dementia is such a sad thing. My Mom's sister has it.

Well, the good news is, after going through that with Grandma, I now have guilt-free permission to stick Mom in a nursing home if she gets that bad. 

Here's hoping she doesn't!

5 hours ago, Daylily said:

Was she able to live on her own?

 

One of my grandpas died on Christmas day too.

No.  Her dementia was too bad.  One of the times when we was going to the hospital, they had to call OnStar to figure out where she was - 2 hours in the wrong direction.